Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
Speaker 2: Hey, Sarah, this is dfrag asking the questions, questioning the answers,
having a physical conversation with everything that is you. We
depend so much on other people giving us direction and
we forget that the inner part of us is a compass.
It knows, you've always known, it's given to you at birth.
But we let other people's decisions control everything that we're doing.
Ask the questions, question the answers. I do it in
a journal, and then we do this vocal defragging where
we're out on a transition walk, strolling through this beautiful
forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina. Sadly, you can't hear
all the birds, but you can hear other things, maybe
the wind, the rain that's building up. There are things
around us every day, but we're not aware of it.
And I think that's going to be our subject today
on defray, is that what are you ignoring that's happening
around you and why are you ignoring it?
Speaker 3: That's a tough cookie to bite into.
Speaker 2: Because we are a content driven nation, especially after the
lockdown for COVID nineteen, we instantly went to those smartphones,
those computers. We were doing whatever we could to clog
up our minds so we didn't have to think about
this mysterious thing that was happening to not just your city,
but the rest of the world. Because I'm a martial artist,
what happens is is that I'm very much aware of
I've had to grow into that pair of shoes. When
I go into a restaurant, I don't sit with my
back to the door. No, I said, I have the
way we're trained, I have to become aware of My
dog Jazzy is the same way. She has to know
everything that's taking place. She is aware. But the thing
that gets me, and it reminds me so much of
the people that I know, and you might be one
of them.
Speaker 3: And I'm not gonna say this is wrong.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, through awareness, Jazzy, well look at things
behind us, where we've been, and she wants to go
back to where we've been. That's a heavy duty subject.
How often do you see what needs to be accomplished,
but you find yourself looking over your shoulder because something
back there has your attention. Was it something that you
didn't finish, You didn't get enough praise for.
Speaker 3: What's back there.
Speaker 2: Now people will always tell me that, man, you keep journals.
You've been writing for twenty nine years. But dude, here's
the thing. You can go back and you can reread
your life anytime you want. I can, that is the truth,
But I don't. I don't go anywhere near it. I
really don't. And the reason being is because when you're
living a lifestyle of what is mindful in your present
place of now, it's more difficult to go into your
past because you've trained yourself to be right here. Yeah,
I keep it with d frag journal. I think I
write more in my d frag journal than I do
in my morning journal. And the reason being is because
there's so much moving through us at all times. I
think you should start your own vocal d frag put
it on your smartphone. When something is moving through you
just put it down, record it, and then come back
to it and say damn. Because I made myself aware
of what was moving through me in that moment of now,
I'm able to learn from it. That's not living in
your past. That's speaking to your future self. You know,
you didn't know what being in the twelfth grade was
all about. In the first grade, you just knew it
was really cool to be away from the house for
a few hours a day. And by the time you
got to the twelfth grade, unless you love school, you
were doing everything you could to take study hall or
get out there in that park because you skip school.
But taking vocal notes understanding that through awareness that you
become a greater student. My pastor today, Stephen Ferdick, brought
up something very interesting, and once again, this is not
a judgment, this is not anything but just having a
conversation with you. The subject was based on our instruments.
What are the instruments that we were given that we
tend to ignore, we let other people have. We think
that it's a strength, and when it's not a strength,
then we try to go create other musical instruments or
drawing instruments, talking instruments. We try to go and get
an app for this and an app for that, And
what happens is that we clog up ourselves and that
that real instrument that we're supposed to be holding is
just sitting there. His example was a guitar, an electric
guitar in the wrong hands.
Speaker 3: That guitar is silent. In the right hands, it plays
the music.
Speaker 2: So I ask you about that personally, not to steal
from my pastor I'm not because it was planted and
it's growing. What instrument do you have that is in
the wrong hands? And when I say that, you know
where I'm going with this, because you know how I
feel about other people using our instruments. I don't like
it when people put with my toys. I don't like it.
My mom used to say, you're not nice to people.
She would always say things like, now, son, you need
to learn how to share. You need to learn how
to share. Well, it took a little bit to get
me to learn how to share, a couple bops up
side the head and getting beat up by my brothers
and sisters.
Speaker 3: Then, you know, because they wanted what I had.
Speaker 2: They wanted my instrument, especially when it came to what
I had in my early breeding days of wanting to
be in radio. Hey he has records. Hey he's got
a turntable. Hey he's got speakers. I want, I want,
I want, And so I would have to share my
instruments it didn't change. And I'm sure you're in the
same boat that. When you share your skills, your gifts
other people, especially in the business world, they like to
take what you have and they like to benefit what
it is that they want to bring forward through the
avenues of success. And where is your instrument in all
of that. Everybody is trying to steal your instrument. But
if it's in the right hands, then your instrument is
strong and it makes a difference. Through awareness, we find
out more about ourselves. That's dfragging and on a vocal
dfrag when you drop your vocals down and you go
back and listen to it. It's not like a thought
because you can change your thoughts at the drop of
a hat. But when you physically hear yourself going through
the motions of thinking out loud, your instrument becomes stronger.
Ask yourself the questions, question the answers. It's so simple,
yet so challenge